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The weekend of July 5-7, nearly 6,000 attended the Jehovah’s Witnesses “God’s Word Is Truth” District Convention at the St. Charles Family Arena.
One highlight of the convention was a dramatic play which illustrated the importance of families using God’s Word, the Bible, to successfully guide them through the challenges of life in today’s world.

The Religious Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ukraine faces the illegal seizure of a portion of its property through a landgrab scam commonly known in Ukraine as a property raid. Such scams involve the illegal sale of a property to a third party without the knowledge of the legitimate owners. The sale is then validated by the court and any appeals by the legitimate owners are dismissed by Ukraine’s Supreme Economic Court.

Enemies of the state and ‘non-citizens’ are seen to come in many guises. In addition to that of the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the persecution of Pentecostal Christians has escalated dramatically in recent years. Internal security forces monitor, harass and routinely detain those identified as practicing ‘illegal’ faiths.

Joseba, quoted in the preceding article, was the head of a small commando group that planned to blow up a police station. “But before we could carry out this attack,” explained Joseba, “I was arrested and spent two years in prison.” Later, his wife, Luci, began to study the Bible with Jehovah’s Witnesses. Eventually Joseba joined those discussions.

Several factors contribute to the development of hospital-acquired anemia. Some of these are not modifiable, such as patient age and sex, the presence of chronic kidney disease, and acute inflammation. But one factor that is clearly under the control of health care providers is minimization of phlebotomy.

The most important test of a government’s legitimacy is whether it protects basic human rights, most obviously life and liberty. The foundation is freedom conscience, including religious liberty. Governments unwilling to respect their citizen’s faith in God and view of the transcendent are not likely to treat people with dignity in other ways.Story here … …Jehovah’s Witnesses and Persecution

The events, open to the public, begin this weekend and continue for the next five weeks. The only other Colorado convention is in Pueblo. It’s estimated that 27,000 people will attend the conferences during the combined weekends. The event is part of a larger nationwide effort that includes 381 conventions in 98 cities across the country.Story here .. .. ..

La Rue said that he is deeply concerned by increasingly sophisticated blocking or filtering mechanisms used by some states for censorship.
However, La Rue said that child pornography is one clear exception where blocking measures are justified.Story here . . . . .

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

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Criminal Investigation Department Captain Andrey Tronov and Major Sergey Bocharnikov. Tronov did not allow the Witnesses to call a lawyer and said: “If this were 1937, you would be shot!” Before leaving the police station, Vadim Zvyagintsev wrote a statement to the head of the Police Department of Shebekino. Bocharnikov tore up the statement and ordered the couple to leave. The Zvyagintsev’s are appealing the actions of the police officersStory here . . . . .

And so it goes with Russian justice. “Russian Justice” an Oxymoron ?
Viktor Zhenkov, an attorney for the case stated, “Justice is obstructed when facts are ignored. One judge finds that the publications do not contain any signs of extremism, while another rules quite the opposite.Story here . . . . .

However, these situations are primarily “land disputes,” do not meet the statutory requirement in the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act, and should not divert our attention from the significant gains in expanding religious freedoms that Vietnam has made since the lifting of CPC designation in November 2006. These gains include increased recognition and registration of scores of new religions, implementation of a new legal framework on religion, and training programs at the local and national level.

Critics said the law is applied randomly and unfairly. At a news conference in Moscow, Kalistratov’s lawyer read from a Russian Orthodox catechism that described other religions as being “from the devil,” and said that if the same logic that prosecutors applied to his case were applied to such literature, thousands or even millions of Russian Orthodox believers would have to be put on trial.Story here . . . . .

The case was the latest in a series in which US citizens have been held in North Korea on charges ranging from criticizing the North Korean regime to crossing the border illegally, to Christian proselytizing. Christian worship is banned in North Korea, except in two churches in Pyongyang that are viewed as showcases, opened only for display to foreign visitors as evidence of religious freedom.Story here . . . . .

“We are against the enslavement of the human personality by religious sects and the use of religious feelings for commercial purposes that such sects carry out,” VMRO’s press center said Saturday regarding its motivation to protest against the Jehovah’s Witnesses.Story here . . . . .

It is unlawful to practice a faith unless it is one of four “registered” religions:
Eritrean Orthodox, Muslim, Catholic, or Lutheran. Security forces arrest members
of “unregistered” religions, often during religious services. A religious-freedom
monitoring group reported that

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

Recently, the Selectmen of Falmouth issued a permit to a local Baptist Church to hold Easter Sunday services on a public beach. Of course, having gotten so much of their foot in the door for using taxpayer-maintained public property as a church, the Baptists have come right back asking for a permit to use Falmouth Heights Beach every Sunday, from 5 to 7 p.m., throughout the summer.Story here . . . . .

During the test performance of the law on countering extremism in the library for the prisoners found the book, included in the federal list of extremist materials: “What Does the Bible Really Teach?” Publishers «Watch tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Inc.» Brooklyn, New York, USA 2005, and “Pay Attention to Daniel’s prophecy” Publishers «Watch tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, inc. International Bibl Students Association », Brooklyn, New York, USA 1999.Story here . . . . .

It mentions specific cases of attacks against non-Christian temples – vandalism against the mosque in Nikopol in 2009, in Blagoevgrad also in 2009, in Karlovo in April 2010, in Plovdiv and in Kazanlak.

Cases of vandalism have also been reported with respect to Jewish schools in Sofia in March 2010, and a synagogue in Burgas in July this year.Story here . . . . .

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